Legging.



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(Application filed Apr. 5, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES ANTON M. LUNDGARD, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

LEGGING.

SPEGIZFIGA'IION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 672, 35, dated April 901- I Application filed April 5, 1900. Serial No- 11,633. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTON M. LUNDGARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leggings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to leggings or like articles of wear.

The object of my invention is to furnish a neat-fitting legging for bicyclists, sportsmen, and for other purposes by constructing the same adjustable in size for the purpose of adapting it to different-sized legs.

With this object in view my invention consists of a legging'at the meeting edges of which are two clasping members, one of which consists of a stifi bar or strip of metal having studs on each end, while the other member comprises a flat strip of spring metal provided with means at its respective ends to adjnstably engage the studs on the first-mentioned member.

My invention consists, further, in providing a turn-button on the stiff bar to engage a slotted plate or extension on the spring member, whereby the edges of the legging are locked together.

The peculiar construction and manner of operating my invention will be clearly described hereinafter and recited in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a legging to which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the bar, and Fig. 3 is a similar View of the spring member.

In carrying out myinvention I provide the usual legging 1, comprising the body and ankle portion and the foot-strap. The longitudinal meeting edges of the legging 1 carry within their folds the stiff bar 2 and the spring-strap 3, respectively.

4 and 5 designate two headed pins or studs rigidly secured at or near the respective ends of the bar 2,while a turn-button 6 is provided intermediate the ends thereof, as will be presently explained.

The clasping member3 comprises a strip of spring steel having outwardly projecting bars or plates 7 and 8 near each end and adjacent to the studs or pins hereinbefore referred to. Each plate or bar is provided with a plurality of notches, as 9 on the plate 7 and 10 on the plate 8. It will be noticed that these notches are oppositely disposed-that is to say, they are arranged along the outer edges of their respective platesso that when the spring clasping member 3 is forced in engage ment with the bar 2 the same will be held securely in.engagement therewith by means of an intermediate and slotted plate 11, the slot 12 of which engages with the turn-button 6. The member 3 being of spring metal is bent slightly outward between its ends when applied to the leg, and the tendency of said member to straighten itself forces the upper end thereof upward and the lower end thereof downward, thus holding the plates 7 and 8 in engagement with the pins 5.

In actual practice it may be found necessary to provide a series of turn-buttons 6 and plates 11 instead of one shown; but this would not affect the scope of my invention, and I reserve the right to make such changes Without departing from the spirit thereof.

In applying the fastening members to the leggings the notched bars or plates 7 and 8 will probably be made separate from the strip 3, so as to facilitate the application of the parts to the garment. After the strip is sewed to the edge of the garment said plates can easily be riveted thereto in any well-known manner.

From the foregoing the operation will be obvious, and it will be readily seen that I have provided a cheap, simple, efficient, and durable fastening which can be operated to fasten the meeting edges of the leggings together or unfasten them without the inconvenience resulting from the use of the common lacing now generally in vogue.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A legging having longitudinally-disposed meeting edges in combination with fastening means comprising a rigid bar attached to one of said meeting edges, heading-pins projectthrough which the turn-button extends to look ing from theends of said bar; a turrnbutton the strip and bar together. no arranged on the bar between said pins; a In testimony whereoflaffix mysignature in strip of resilient metal secured to the other presenoe of two witnesses.

edge of the legging; oppositely-notched plates ANTON M. LUNDGARD. projecting laterally from said striptoengage Witnesses: the pins, and a plate projecting horizontally W. TREYNOR,

from "said strip and having an elongated slot HANS J. WOUTHERLICH. 

